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LIDA HALL NAYLOR, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

COAT-HANG ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 596,176, dated December 28, 1897. Application filed January 14, 1897. Serial No. 619,166. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LIDA HALL NAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county ofHennepin and State of Minnesota, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Coat-Hangers; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to coat-hangers, and has for its object to provide means whereby one or more coat-hangers may be suspended from a ceiling or overhead support and raised or lowered, as desired, whereby the space adjacent to the ceiling, which is ordinarily unoccupied, may be utilized.

The invention consists in certain novel features and details of construction, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the entire device constructed in accordance with the present invention; and Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the double pulley, showing also the siamesed rope or flexible connection for raising and lowering the hanger.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures of the drawlngs.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a series of hangers, which may be of any preferred construction and which are suspended upon a corresponding series of hooks 2, the latter being secured in the bottom edge of a common bar or support 3. This bar is provided at or near each end and on its upper side with spaced hooks 4, into which are passed the loop ends 5 of a pair of hoisting ropes or connections 6.

7 designates a bar of about the same length as the bar 3, the bar 7 being secured to the ceiling or other overhead support and provided upon its under side with pendent pulleys 8, over which pass the ropes 6. The bar 7 is also provided at or near its central portion with spaced pulleys 9, around which the ropes 6 also pass, the ropes 6 being thereafter extended in substantially parallel relation to a double pulley 10, secured to the side Wall of the room or closet. This pulley comprises two wheels and a trifurcated frame 11, and the ropes or connections 6 pass on each side of the central portion or branch of the trifurcated bracket and are then connected at the point 12, where they merge into a single rope or connection 13, which extends downwardly and is provided at or near its extremity with a knot 14:, which may be engaged in a flattened hook 15, secured to the side wall of the room or closet, as the case may be. If desired, a double pulley may be employed in lieu of two single pulleys 9 at the center of the bar 7, and said bar may itself be dispensed with by attaching the pulleys 8 and 9 directly to the ceiling or other overhead support.

By uniting the ropes 6 and merging them into a single rope the junction of said ropes acts as a stop against the central branch of the trifurcated frame or bracket of the double pulley to limit the extent to which the bar with its attaching hangers may be lowered. By merging the two ropes 6 into a single rope, as described, and operating said single rope the ropes 6 may be simultaneously or correspondingly raised or lowered, thus maintaining the bar 3 in a horizontal position. By means of the construction described the space adjacent to the ceiling of a room or of the closet of a room is utilized.

It will be understood that the length of the bar 3 and the number of hangers supported thereon may be changed according to the size of the space to be utilized.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be obtained by Letters Patent, is-

In a garment-support, a common supporting-bar, a series of hooks arranged at intervals thereon and depending therefrom, a plurality of garment-hangers removably suspended upon said hooks, hoisting-ropes attached to the ends' of said bar and running over spaced overhead pulleys, a pair of centrally-arranged pulleys rotating on vertical axes above the bar and guiding said ropes, and a double pulley arranged at one side of the vertical plane of said bar and comprising a trifurcated bracket having itsthree arms arranged in a common plane, the said ropes be- In testimony whereof I have signed this ing merged into asingle rope and passing over specification in the presence of two subscribthe wheels of the double pulley on opposite ing Witnesses.

sides of the central arm of the trifnrcated LIDA HALL NAYLOR. bracket, whereby the junction in the ropes c0- \Vitnesses:

acts with the central arm of the bracket, sub- GEO. M. NAYLOR,

stantially as and for the purpose specified. P. S. NEILSON. 

